Quotes with potatoes

  • Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
  • Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

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  • Woody Allen Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Douglas Adams It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Frank McCourt Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
    Frank McCourt
    Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer (1930 - 2009)
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  • Buck Owens That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bob Greene The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Alan Watts Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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